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10.4: Improve IMAP folder support in Mail.app
Authored by: zebrum on Mar 06, '07 06:22:57AM

Some people have rules set up on their exchange server to put email into certain subfolders under the inbox. They would have configured these from Outlook and usually its a rule to put email from certain people into certain folders. The annoying thing about this is when you receive a new email which appears in a subfolder of the inbox, the Mail icon in the dock doesnt show the unread email number and you don't get a growl notification if you have growl installed.

So in this case I recommend you remove all the outlook rules, move all your subfolders out of the inbox and into a new top level folder called Archive, and then you can use Mail's smart folders to contain email from certain people. Then every so often copy all of your email from your inbox to the archive folder.

Another point to note is when you copy email or delete it from your inbox the change isn't reflected on the server until you close Mail and open it again. This is a rather strange bug because you would expect the sychronize option to do the samet thing but it doesn't.



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